About the Authors

Ronny Völz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Ronny.volz@kaust.edu.sa (RV); heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa (HH)

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Soon-Kap Kim

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Jianing Mi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Anamika A. Rawat

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Alaguraj Veluchamy

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Kiruthiga G. Mariappan

Roles Software, Validation

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Naganand Rayapuram

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Jean-Michel Daviere

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg 12 Rue Général Zimmer, Strasbourg cedex, France

Patrick Achard

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg 12 Rue Général Zimmer, Strasbourg cedex, France

Ikram Blilou

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Salim Al-Babili

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Moussa Benhamed

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, University Paris-Sud, University of Évry Val d’Essonne, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cite, University of Paris-Saclay, UMR9213 Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Paris Saclay, Essonne, France

Heribert Hirt

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Ronny.volz@kaust.edu.sa (RV); heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa (HH)

Affiliations Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.